The other great feature of Washington is its museums, some of which are among the best in the world. Also, they are all free! Credit to the government and the smithsonian institute for making these culturally significant museums accessible to anyone and everyone.
The ones we managed to get to in our 2 days in Washington were the Air and Space Museum and the National Archive.
The Air and Space Museum is a comprehensive museum detailing man's journey is first flights into space travel. It helps you to appreciate that it only took one generation to get from the Wright brothers first manned powered flight all the way to landing on the moon with Apollo 11. Here you get to see the Wright brothers plane and the Apollo capsule which achieved those incredible feats.
The National Archive is significant in that it contains perhaps the three most important documents in US history: the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. You can see originals with signatures of ones like George Washington and the stylish John Hancock but some of the hand written text may be hard to see add they have faded dramatically over time.
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